yeh i would've liked to seen at least one heavier bicyclist. but it's trek, they're trying to sell bikes, so they need to sell the image that if you ride you will eventually look like so-and-so.
i'm glad they did the project and hope it turns out ok.
so far it seems every other outfit that wants to do a "women who ride" type of thing end up concentrating on fashion and cookbooks and other redbook-type concerns. i dont care about fashion or cooking or makeovers, i just love to ride. i love aching lungs and burning thighs. i love fast descents. i love the feeling of riding and i wanna do it all the time. that's why i'm here at TE.
that's why i wanted one of us to be one of the trek women.

as for the people of color, i dont think you should force diversity for diversity's sake. they only chose 5 women. forcing them to select one black woman, one hispanic, one asian, one native american, one i-apologize-for-not-including-your-race, it really wouldn't be about the women who ride. it would be tokenism at best. i dont need to see someone of my race or even my gender to identify with them. when i'm struggling up a mountain i feel like i'm alberto contador, i picture him in my mind, i identify with that picture.

i'm going to wait and see if this "trek women who ride" ends up being about real women who ride, i'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.